Monthly Archives: September 2010

The Sherrod Effect, Then and Now

by Judith Weisenfeld One of the summer's big political stories involved conservative activist Andrew Brietbart's selective editing of a video of USDA employee Shirley Sherrod speaking before an NAACP meeting. Sherrod recounted how, in the course of her work with … Continue reading

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Muslims, Midterms and Mideast Peace

Is our president a Muslim? Of course not. But rather than state the obvious, news outlets spent the summer ballyhooing polls, surveys and interviews that reveal 25 percent of Americans may be, at best, benighted, and, at worst, bespelled by … Continue reading

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Unfair Play

by John Adams In just a couple of years, a significant portion of the American public has moved from questioning the patriotism of Barack Obama's pastor (and, by implication, the patriotism of candidate Obama) to wondering whether President Obama is, … Continue reading

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